En el mismo comienzo del Génesis está escrito que Dios creó al hombre para confiarle el dominio sobre los pájaros, los peces y los animales. Claro que el Génesis fue escrito por un hombre y no por un...
Dưới mắt Tereza, sách vở là biểu tượng cho hội tình thương bí mật. Bởi đó là khí giới duy nhất cô có trong tay để chống chọi với cái thế giới thô bỉ, nhơ nhớp chung quanh cô. Nhất là tiểu thuyết. Cô đ...
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)
Cada possibilidade nova que tem a existência, até a menos provável, transforma a existência inteira.
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, it, he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.
But there was something more precious than his poems; something far away he didn’t yet possess and longed for—manliness; he knew that it could only be attained by action and courage; and if courage me...
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists...
But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
Bu dünyada gençlik ve güzelliğin bir anlamı yoktu; birbirinin tıpatıp eşi, ruhları görünmez olmuş bedenlerle dolu uçsuz bucaksız bir toplama kampından başka bir şey değildi yaşadığımız dünya.
Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.
And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds...
All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. He felt an ineffable love for her. Her sleep must have been very light at th...
All languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering (Late Latin, passio). In other languages, Czech, Polish, German...
Agora, o pintor dissertava longamente acerca da composição: o que há de mais bonito nos sonhos, dizia, é o encontro improvável de seres e de coisas que não poderiam encontrar-se na vida corrente; num...
A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats inhis chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himselfwith so alien and unfamiliar an object as th...
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it...
People don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what k...
He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in th...
Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.
He realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.